Platform Decay
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4.5 • 526 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for... eye contact!
(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)
The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
Platform Decay
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
One of the most emotionally complicated robots in all of sci-fi is on a mission to save some humans it might actually care about in this delightful installment in Martha Wells’ celebrated Murderbot Diaries series. It’s been a long time since Murderbot quietly freed itself from the typical corporate constraints placed on cyborg security units. It doesn’t even fight with its emotional subroutine anymore (well, at least not as much). Murderbot’s on a mission from its favorite human, Dr. Mensah, to rescue her family from a space station when things take an odd turn—and those things are mostly feelings. Murderbot’s trademark sarcasm is on full display in its internal monologue, but we really appreciated the character development that keeps it from going full snark. Its thoughts about (and occasional banter with) the children on board is especially fun and unexpected. If you’ve been following Murderbot’s journey as a character, you won’t be disappointed by its major (if somewhat begrudging) breakthroughs in Platform Decay.
Customer Reviews
Poor MurderBot, so many humans!
All humaning at it. Plus the worst whirlwind tourist visit ever. You just wanna give it a hug (but don't, because it would not like that).
New Murderbot Story Continues the Adventure
“Platform Decay” is the eighth installment in Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries series. Like many of the previous installments, this is a novella.
Our favorite SecUnit has been living with its humans from Preservation. Here, it is more than property. People keep acting as if it is an actual person, and this is beginning to be more and more the case. Interacting with people cause it all kinds of emotions. Emotions aren’t its strong suit, but it is learning to deal with them. What’s new is that it has installed a mental health module. This leads to all sorts of humorous self reflection and enhanced sarcastic internal monologue.
In this novel, Murderbot and the new rouge SecUnit, Three, are setting off to extract some humans from Preservation who are being held on a huge corporate station that actually forms a ring around a planet they are strip mining for resources. This station is a multi-corporate jurisdiction, and will be challenging to get into much less get out of with humans intact.
This novella was sort of a self contained adventure. It involves some of the cast of characters from the novel “Network Effect” which preceded it. As always, the story is another great installment in the Murderbot Diaries.
Redundant and reductive, somehow.
The author admits the pressure in the post script - they must crank out one of these one per year. The entire book here is a slog. The amount of action would be two chapters in an earlier work. No action. No new tech. Old characters used boringly. It’s a planes and trains chase that feels like a slow hike in the mud. The bloom is off the rose for this IP. Perhaps let someone start ghost-writing it going. forward? It’s such a wonderful character - it’s a shame to see it dying by boring the reader to death.